Are Robot Warriors Finally Coming to the Battlefield? Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Despite the success of armed flying drones, their counterparts on the ground have never made it over the starting line. The Pentagon's recent history is littered with failed efforts for armed robots. But as new technology, both in software and hardware, enables a new generation of machines, are we about to enter the age of the robot warrior at last? Failure to Launch Robots have already transformed bomb disposal from a lethal game of Russian roulette into a technical challenge executed from a safe distance. The idea is essentially the same as it was in 1982, when Grumman and Martin Marietta produced prototype Teleoperated Mobile Antiarmor Platforms (TMAP), 600-pound vehicles armed with antitank missiles, for the U.S. Since those days, one robot after another has been terminated or sidelined. The closest robots came to combat was when an armed version of the Talon bomb-disposal robot, called SWORDS, deployed to Iraq in 2007.
Ranking Políticos Les éliminations par drones attisent la haine, dénoncent d'anciens opérateurs | États-Unis L'élimination par drone est « l'un des moteurs les plus puissants pour le terrorisme et la déstabilisation dans le monde », écrivent les quatre anciens militaires, dans une lettre adressée au président américain Barack Obama et à d'autres responsables, et publiée par The Guardian. « Nous ne pouvons rester les bras croisés devant des tragédies comme celle des attentats de Paris », ajoutent-ils. « Les civils innocents que nous avons tués n'ont fait qu'ajouter aux sentiments de haine » à l'origine du terrorisme et de groupes comme les djihadistes de l'État islamique, écrivent-ils, demandant à l'administration américaine de « reconsidérer son approche ». Écoeurés par leur métier Selon le journal britannique, qui publie jeudi leurs témoignages en détail, les quatre opérateurs sont des trentenaires ayant quitté l'US Air Force après une demi-douzaine d'années de service, écoeurés par leur métier.
We should not dismiss the dangers of 'killer robots' so quickly In an open letter I helped publish on July 28 – which has now been signed by more than 2,700 artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics researchers from around the world – we stated that “starting a military AI arms race is a bad idea, and should be prevented by a ban on offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control”. A few days later, philosopher Jai Galliott challenged the notion of a ban, recommending instead that we welcome offensive autonomous weapons – often called “killer robots” – rather than ban them. I was pleased to read Jai’s recommendation, even if he calls the open letter I helped instigate “misguided” and “reckless”, and even if I disagree with him profoundly. This is a complex and multi-faceted problem, and it is worth considering his arguments in detail as they bring several important issues into focus. Four points Jai puts forward four arguments why a ban is not needed: Let’s consider the claims in turn. The final argument claims UN bans are virtually useless.
Câmara Transparente | DAPP FGV Fonte de Dados: Receita dos Candidatos em 2014, disponibilizada pelo Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE), e dados abertos da Câmara dos Deputados. A ferramenta “Câmara Transparente” tem como objetivo desvelar as influências econômicas feitas sobre os atuais ocupantes da Câmara dos Deputados. Os dados utilizados retratam as receitas de campanha dos deputados federais que atualmente fazem parte da Câmara dos Deputados e as suas designações para Comissões Temáticas. O banco de receitas eleitoral é o mesmo utilizado na ferramenta “Mosaico Eleitoral”, os dados de receita dos candidatos em 2014, e os dados de composição da Câmara e de pertencimento a comissões temáticas são atualizados periodicamente a partir do portal Dados Abertos da Câmara dos Deputados. Essa ferramenta, que foca em lobby e financiamento de campanha, é dividida em quatro visualizações diferentes. 1. Uma segunda visualização apresenta a indicação relativa do peso dos 10 principais doadores na campanha em geral. 2. 4. 1. 2. 3.
Life as a drone operator: 'Ever step on ants and never give it another thought?' When Michael Haas, a former senior airman with the US air force, looks back on the missions he flew over Afghanistan and other conflict zones in a six-year career operating military drones, one of the things he remembers most vividly is the colorful language airmen would use to describe their targets. A team of three would be sitting, he recalls, in a ground control station in Creech air force base outside Las Vegas, staring at computer screens on to which images would be beamed back from high-powered sensors on Predator drones thousands of miles away. The aim of the missions was to track, and when the conditions were deemed right, kill suspected insurgents. That’s not how they put it, though. They would talk about “cutting the grass before it grows out of control”, or “pulling the weeds before they overrun the lawn”. And then there were the children. They called them “fun-sized terrorists”. “They handed me a closed envelope with the number in it, but I never opened it. Why?
The Inevitabilities of Killer Robots Illustration: Shaye Anderson In October 2012, nine civil society organizations met in New York and agreed to work together to create the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Since its launch six months later in London the campaign has seen increased public awareness, strong media coverage, and the remarkably fast—in diplomatic terms—commencement of diplomatic talks to discuss questions raised by these weapons. These nascent efforts provide a counterbalance to the obvious push for the development, production, and ultimate use of fully-autonomous weapons systems that continues unabated. As thousands of noted artificial intelligence and robotics experts recently stated in an open letter in opposition to killer robots, weapons systems capable of targeting and killing human beings on their own will be on the battlefield in a matter of years not decades. What is inevitable if killer robots make their way to the battlefields of the world is the creation of military necessity where none yet exists.
Qual é a relação entre o financiamento de campanhas eleitorais e a elaboração de leis no Brasil - Nexo Jornal Tese - Interesses econômicos, representação política e produção legislativa no Brasil sob a ótica do financiamento de campanhas eleitorais Autor Bruno Carazza dos Santos Orientadora Amanda Flávio de Oliveira Área e sub-área Direito, Economia, Ciência Política, Direito Econômico Defendido em Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito 08/07/2016 Link para o original Esta pesquisa investiga como os interesses de grandes grupos econômicos permeiam o Estado brasileiro, a partir da análise do perfil do financiamento de campanhas eleitorais. A qual pergunta a pesquisa responde? O objetivo central da pesquisa foi investigar de que forma o sistema político brasileiro favorece a atuação de agentes privados na aprovação de leis que promovam seus interesses particulares, e não a coletividade em geral. Por que isso é relevante? Leis não caem do céu e raramente são neutras. Resumo numérico/gráfico da pesquisa# Participação do financiamento eleitoral no PIB brasileiro (1994/2014)
The US government has begun trialling methods to disable and track commercial drones | News | Lifestyle | The Independent The US government is conducting tests into ways to disable and track drones that may infiltrate sensitive sites. Although the research, which is being contributed to by various government agencies and state law enforcement, is in its early stages, there has been at least one field test, according to Reuters. A source told the news agency that late last year, police in New York used a microwave-based system to try to track a commercially available drone in Times Square and send it back to its operator. The test, which previously went unreported, was set back by signal interference from nearby media broadcasts, and apparently involved representatives from the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Defence Department A security scare was prompted in Tokyo after a small drone was found landed on the roof of the Japanese Prime Minister's official residence The most amazing drone pictures
We Can Now Build Autonomous Killing Machines. And That's a Very, Very Bad Idea Clearpath Robotics was founded six years ago by three college buddies with a passion for building stuff. Its 80 employees specialize in all-terrain test rigs like the Husky, a stout four-wheeled robot vehicle used by researchers within the Department of Defense. They make drones too, and have even built a robotic boat called the Kingfisher. Clearpath is the first and, so far as we can tell, only robotics company to pledge not to build killer robots. It’s early days still. We’re ‘nowhere near ready.’ Military drones like the Predator currently are controlled by humans, but Gariepy says it wouldn’t take much to make them fully automatic and autonomous. For Gariepy, the problem is one of international law, as well as programming. We’re starting to see similar problems with autonomous vehicles. Make Cool Stuff; Not Weapons Autonomous missiles are interesting to the military, though, because they solve a tactical problem.